one of the world-famous garden-park art creations. There are many scenic areas in the park including waterfalls, fountains, ponds, and a stone garden. It is one of the most famous examples of late 18th or early 19th century European landscape garden design that has been preserved to the present time. The Sofiyivsky Park was named one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine on 21 August 2007, based on voting by experts and the Internet community. Park sights By original idea of the architect, the park illustrates different parts of Homer's poems Odyssey and Iliad. Southern Part The park starts with "Main entrance" on Sadova Street. The central alley starts after the main entrance. Main entrance towers, which were built in 1850–1852, are still standing there. A tourist service center, which is now called "The House of Science Art", is located nearby. This building has original architecture with observation area on the top. Besides a museum, the building has a hotel, restaurant, and sauna. Long time the entrance of the park was decorated with Black Poplars (trees with triangle shape). From "Sofiyivka" park, these trees became very popular all around Russian Empire. Before 1996, on the right side from entrance, small historical museum was located. It was built in 1957 and was used as a laboratory. After 1980 it was modified to museum to train guides. In 1996 all exhibits were moved to administrative building. Now from the place of former museum you can see granitic cliffs and small "Geneva lake" which appeared here in the 1930s. On the glade up the Geneva lake, a small gazebo was built for the guard soldier. The shape of the gazebo looked like a mushroom, that's why the area on the hill on the right side from the entrance is called 'Mushroom'. The gazebo was renovated in 1994. On the right side of main alley (between Main Entrance and Taypersk Rock), cypresses and pine trees are growing. These trees were planted in 1891. This area was called "Small Switzerland" before the beginning of World War II. 'Taypersk Rock' is located on the right side of main alley after Small Switzerland. This rock is named after the South-Eastern wall of Capitol fortress of Ancient Rome, and it has a wooden gazebo on it. During the rule of Potockiy, this point was the end of the park. Before the Flore Pavilion, on the left, you can